Cover -- Halftitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Conventions -- 1. Agriculture and industrialisation: The East Asian case -- East Asian industrialisation -- Agriculture's role in development -- Agricultural adjustment -- An East Asian model of agriculture's role in industrialisation? -- Questions and hypotheses -- 2. East Asian agriculture: Patterns and trends -- The agricultural environment -- The economic organisation of agriculture -- Agriculture in the economy -- Conclusion: the pattern of change in East Asian agriculture -- 3. The role of agriculture in Japanese industrialisation -- Industrialisation and agricultural growth in pre-war Japan -- Agriculture's contribution to industrialisation -- Agriculture, society and the state in industrialising Japan -- Conclusion -- 4. The state and agricultural adjustment in industrial Japan -- Agriculture in industrial Japan -- The state and agricultural adjustment: the rise of the Food Control System -- The end of an era in agricultural adjustment: the crisis of 1993-4 -- Conclusion: the New Food Law and the future of Japanese agriculture -- 5. Agriculture and industrialisation in Korea -- Korean industrialisation -- Korean agriculture on the eve of industrialisation -- Agriculture's contribution to industrialisation -- Agriculture and the state during Korea's industrialisation -- Conclusion -- 6. Agricultural adjustment in industrial Korea -- Economics and politics from the 1970s to the 1990s -- Agricultural trends in industrial Korea -- Agriculture and the state in industrial Korea -- Korean agriculture in the 1990s -- Conclusion -- 7. The role of agriculture in Taiwan's economic development -- Industrialisation and agricultural growth in the 1950s and 1960s -- Agriculture's resource contribution to industrialisation.

The institutions of the developmental state in agriculture -- Conclusion -- 8. Agricultural adjustment in industrial Taiwan -- Agriculture in the economy in industrial Taiwan -- Agricultural policy and the adjustment problem -- Trade liberalisation and agricultural politics -- Conclusion: a future for Taiwanese agriculture? -- 9. Conclusions: The past and future of East Asian agriculture -- Agriculture and industrialisation -- Agricultural adjustment -- The future of East Asian agriculture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.